Maharashtra govt cancels 5 pc Muslim quota in jobs, education

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led Maharashtra government has cancelled the five per cent reservation for members of the Muslim community in jobs and education.

A Government Resolution (GR) was issued to this effect on Tuesday, February 17, as the previous ordinance about the five per cent reservation has lapsed and there is an interim court stay on that decision.

The previous Congress-NCP



(Nationalist Congress Party) government had issued an ordinance to grant a 16 per cent quota to Marathas and five per cent to Muslims.

As per the new GR, all previous decisions and the ordinance related to the five per cent reservation in government, semi-government jobs and educational institutions for the socially and educationally backward Muslim group included under the Special Backward Category (A) have been cancelled.